Step-by-step instructions

Creating VMs

• Creating a VM from a public Linux image
• Creating a VM from a Windows public image
• Creating a VM from a set of disks
• Create a VM with disks restored from snapshots
• Creating a VM from a custom image
• Creating a preemptible VM
• Creating a VM with a GPU

DSVM

• Yandex Data Science Virtual Machine
• Creating a VM from a public DSVM image

Placement groups

• Creating a placement group
• Deleting a placement group
• Creating an instance in a placement group
• Adding a VM to a placement group
• Removing an instance from a placement group

Images with pre-installed software

• Creating a VM from a public image
• Configuring software
• Working with a VM based on a public image
• Getting a list of public images

Getting information about VMs

• Getting information about a VM
• Viewing serial port output

Managing VMs

• Stopping, starting, or restarting a VM
• Attaching a disk to a VM
• Detaching a disk from a VM
• Moving a VM to a different availability zone
• Making a VM's public IP address static
• Updating a VM
• Changing VM computing resources
• Deleting a VM

Working on VMs

• Connecting to a Linux VM via SSH
• Connecting to a Windows VM via RDP
• Working with Yandex.Cloud from inside a VM
• Installing NVIDIA drivers

Creating new disks

• Creating an empty disk

Disk management

• Creating a disk snapshot
• Updating a disk
• Deleting a disk
• Deleting a disk snapshot

Creating new images

• Uploading a disk image to Yandex.Cloud

Managing images

• Deleting a disk image

Managing the serial console

• Getting started with the serial console
• Connecting to a VM's serial console via SSH
• Connecting to a VM's serial console via CLI
• Start your terminal in the Windows serial console (SAC)
• Disabling access to the serial console

Creating instance groups

• Create a fixed-size instance group
• Creating a fixed-size instance group with a network load balancer
• Creating an automatically scaled instance group
• Creating an instance group from Container Optimized Image

Getting information about instance groups

• Get a list of instance groups
• Getting information about an instance group
• Getting a list of instances in a group

Managing instance groups

• Update an instance group
• Configure application health check on the VM
• Incremental update
• Updating without downtime
• Stop an instance group
• Start an instance group
• Delete an instance group

Dedicated hosts

• Creating a VM in a group of dedicated hosts
• Creating a VM on a dedicated host